#tar

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#athletes #back #ball #bouncing #continue

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#early #huge #huge influence #i #influence

I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#best #enter #go #got #i

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#nobody #pennant #shortstop #star #without

It's hard to start from the bottom. ↗

— Lou Duva

#hard #start

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#belly #bloated #body #child #filled

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#chefs #cook #gourmet #grandfather #i

In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

#easier #far #finish #other #soloing

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#characters #comedy #desire #doing #ended

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#apart #become #building #country #course